Only Swiss people can climb

June 16, 2011

Mouse-proof

I’ve been to Switzerland twice and Austria once researching my new novel The Forest Knights, which I hope to self-publish in September 2011.  So I’m going to do a series of posts on Switzerland.  I took this picture while out hiking.  It’s a storage shed for a farmer (maybe for hay or other food for livestock).  Notice the legs made of rocks?  On the top of each leg is a large, flat stone.  I was told this keeps mice out of the storage shed because they can’t handle the overhang.  Apparently Swiss mice have never seen Stallone in Cliffhanger.